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▪ I. stewed, ppl. a.1|stjuːd| Also 5 stwed, 6 stude, stued(e, stuyd, 6–7 stewd, 7 stu'd. [f. stew v.2 + -ed1.] a. Of meat, fruit, vegetables: Cooked by slow boiling in a closed vessel. Of tea: Made strong and bitter by being kept too long in the pot.
c1450Two Cookery-bks. ii. 72 Stwed Beef..Stwed Mutton. 1538Elyot Dict., Offella,..also a potage made with pieces of flesshe, as stuyd brothe or forced gruell. 1555in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford (1880) 230 Item, stude meate..xd. c1596Henslowe Diary (1904) i. 32 Then take a stewed pryne and plucke owt the stone. 1664F. Hawkins Youths Behav. ii. 178 A dish of stu'd Oysters. 1747H. Glasse Cookery ii. 48 A stewed Pheasant. 1816Tuckey Narr. Exped. R. Zaire iv. (1818) 138 A repast..consisting of a stewed fowl, a dish of stewed beans, and cassava bread named Coanga. 1908A. Bennett Old Wives' Tale iv. iii. 509 The lounge tea, which in any case would have been undrinkably stewed. 1915Blackw. Mag. May 600/2 We had a great meal off lunch-tongue, bread, wine and stewed pears. 1924Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 309 Drinking stewed tea with your meat four times a day. 1977M. Hinxman One-Way Cemetery i. 7 The old man poured some stewed tea into a couple of mugs. absol.1861[Trevelyan] Horace at Univ. Athens (1862) 24 I'm..tightly filled With roast, and boiled, and stewed, and pulled, and grilled. b. Comb. † stewed-pot, a stew of various ingredients (cf. stewpot 2); stewed quaker U.S. (See quot. 1890).
1596Nashe Saffron Walden S 2 b, Neither are these parts seuerally distinguished in his order of handling, but, like a Dutch stewd-pot iumbled altogether. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Stewed quaker, burned rum with a piece of butter, an American remedy for a cold. 1890Century Dict. s.v. Quaker, Stewed Quaker, a posset of molasses or honey, stewed with butter and vinegar, and taken hot as a remedy for colds. (Colloq.) ¶c. With pun on stewed ppl. a.2
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. iii. 128 There's no more faith in thee then in a stu'de Prune. [So 1597–1603 ― 2 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 158, Merry W. i. i. 296, Meas. for M. ii. i. 92.] 1606― Tr. & Cr. iii. i. 44 Sodden businesse, there's a stewed phrase indeede. 1609Dekker Gull's Horn-bk. v. 25 When your Knight is vpon his stewed Mutton, be you presently..in the bosome of your goose. d. slang (orig. U.S.). Drunk. Also in phr. stewed to the ears (eyebrows, gills, etc.). Cf. pickled ppl. a.1 2.
1737Pennsylvania Gaz. 6 Jan. 2 The Drinkers Dictionary... Stew'd. 1871A. A. Wright Diary in J. Wright Generations of Men (1959) v. 63 A very jolly party..we kept it up till daylight. I got pretty well stewed. 1912Pedagogical Seminary Mar. 97 [expressions denoting] Intoxication..‘half stewed’. 1922S. Lewis Babbitt xxix. 347 He saw you out the other night with a gang of totties, all stewed to the gills. 1925Wodehouse Sam the Sudden iii. 29 ‘My opinion is that he was as tight as an owl’. ‘Stewed to the eyebrows’. 1930J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 9 They're a bunch o bums and hypocrytes, stewed to the ears most of em already. 1945B. MacDonald Egg & I (1946) iv. xvi. 176 Yewgene got stewed and run into a tree. 1958P. de Vries Mackerel Plaza vi. 82 A casual observer not familiar with him would have thought he was stewed to the gills as he rose and wobbled over to join me. 1978J. Carroll Mortal Friends v. ii. 522 He wondered if Cushing had collected himself. He wondered if Cushing was stewed. ▪ II. † stewed, ppl. a.2 Obs. [f. *stew vb. (f. stew n.2) + -ed1.] Belonging to the stews. stewed whore, stewed strumpet: vaguely used as opprobrious epithets imputing unchastity.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 722/2 This good scholer of Tindalle..findeth in his heart written by the spirit of God, yt freres & monkes..may..vnder the name of weddyng, make stewed strumpettes of nunnes. 1532Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII, V. 425 The King's grace was ruled by one common stued huer, Anne Bullan. 1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 82 There is more open whoredome more stuede whoredome then euer was before. 1556Olde Antichrist 140 b, That Sodomitical stewed state. 1575Gamm. Gurton iii. iii, Where is the strong stued hore? |